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Re:12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef by jbandela1 on Friday September 01, 2023 @06:29AM (#37348950)
> The study, published in the journal Nutrients, analyzed data from the CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which tracked the meals of more than 10,000 adults over a 24-hour period.

12% of Americans ate half the beef on a single day. It is the unlikely that the 12% are the same people from day to day. You may have been one of the 12 percent when you went out for a steak dinner or especially if you visited a Brazilian all you can eat steakhouse.

This seems a very weak foundation to draw a lot of conclusions from.

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Re:12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef by mcv on Friday September 01, 2023 @07:23AM (#37349356)
Yeah, that makes rather a big difference. If everybody eats a big beef meal once per week, those 12% suddenly become 84%.
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Re:12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef by mannerheim on Friday September 01, 2023 @10:34AM (#37351344)
Applying the same logic the study's authors apply to their results, you would also come to the conclusion that 45% of Americans consume no beef at all, rather than that 45% of Americans happen to not eat beef on any given day.

How did this not set off anyone's bullshit detector? And how did this get published?

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Re:12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef by euroderf on Friday September 01, 2023 @01:20PM (#37353692)
But is it making a point that beef consumption is not a 7 days a week thang.
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Re:12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef by mannerheim on Friday September 01, 2023 @01:57PM (#37354155)
The authors appear to be unaware of this obvious flaw in their methodology.

>"On one hand, if it's only 12% accounting for half the beef consumption, you could make some big gains if you get those 12% on board," Rose said. "On the other hand, those 12% may be most resistant to change."

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Re:12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef by peteradio on Friday September 01, 2023 @03:20PM (#37355096)
What an absolute turd. I don't know what would make me madder, someone who lies through their teeth to manipulate or someone who is this highly educated and yet so astoundingly dumb.
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